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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to Call external function in .C or .So (Shared Object) Post 302420339 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 11th of May 2010 10:42:56 AM
Old 05-11-2010
There is no way without invoking something based on C code. In other words you would have to write C code that calls the AIX equivalent of dlopen(): probably loadquery()/loadbind() ) in later versions. It then runs the external function - the name of which is passed as a parameter.
 

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DLERROR(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							DLERROR(3)

NAME
dlerror - obtain error diagnostic for functions in the dlopen API SYNOPSIS
#include <dlfcn.h> char *dlerror(void); Link with -ldl. DESCRIPTION
The dlerror() function returns a human-readable, null-terminated string describing the most recent error that occurred from a call to one of the functions in the dlopen API since the last call to dlerror(). The returned string does not include a trailing newline. dlerror() returns NULL if no errors have occurred since initialization or since it was last called. VERSIONS
dlerror() is present in glibc 2.0 and later. ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). +----------+---------------+---------+ |Interface | Attribute | Value | +----------+---------------+---------+ |dlerror() | Thread safety | MT-Safe | +----------+---------------+---------+ CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001. NOTES
The message returned by dlerror() may reside in a statically allocated buffer that is overwritten by subsequent dlerror() calls. History This function is part of the dlopen API, derived from SunOS. EXAMPLE
See dlopen(3). SEE ALSO
dladdr(3), dlinfo(3), dlopen(3), dlsym(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2017-09-15 DLERROR(3)
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